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knowledge which is fall and complete, onimpeded and anobstructed, infinite and supreme-became his own.
The last thirty years of his life Mahāvira passed in teaching his religious system and organizing his order of ascetics. The scene of his labours is mostly along the Ganges, in the modern districts of Bibār and Allahabad. In the towns which lay in these parts he spent almost all the rainy seasons duriog his spiritual career, though at timos be extended his travels as far west and north as Shrāvasti and the foot of the Himālayag, Men and women of all castes and classes from the lands east of the Middle Country crowded into his ordor, and from those grow the four representatives of the Jaina community: Sādhus, Sādbvis, Srāvakas and Srāvikās-monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen. Mabāvira's name and fame greatly perturbed the Brāhamanas of Magadha, and several of their most eminent teachers undertook to refute his doctrines. Instead of effecting their purpose, however, they became converts, and constituted his Ganadharas-Chief disoiples and teachers of his doctrines. In thirty years Mabāvira is said to have converted to Jainism Magadha, Bibár, Prayaga, Kausbāmbi, Champāpuri, and many other powerful states in North India. The Jainas, both Shvetāmbaras and Digambaras, have recorded the names of the places where he stayed during each rainy season. They also give the names of the different rulers he visi. tod. They tell us how Chetaka, king of Videha, became
a patron of his order; how Kunika, king of Anga, gavo Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
| SR No. | 035303 |
| Book Title | Veer Vibhuti |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nyayavijay |
| Publisher | Jain Tapagaccha Sangh Pedhi |
| Publication Year | 1939 |
| Total Pages | 134 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 6 MB |